An old pub in the fork of two roads at the top end of the town, which is rumoured to have secret tunnels. It never reopened after lockdown, and is now set to be converted into an eight-bedroom house.
The Red Lion
A small white-painted street-corner pub on the north side of the town, which was severely damaged by fire in March of this year.
The Blue Bell
An attractive tile-hung country pub located in mid-Kent close to the River Medway and Beltring Hop Farm. It closed around 2009 and has now been converted to two private residences.
The Glen
A typical post-war pub built by Everards Brewery in 1959 on the Eyres Monsell estate on the south side of the city. It closed in 2022, and recently made the national news when plans to convert it into a mosque were approved.
The Crane
An old pub standing by the South Circular Road, which claimed to be the oldest pub in Wandsworth, having been built in 1738. It was renamed as the Armoury for a period.
The Broughton
A monumental former Whitbread pub in a run-down inner-urban area. Now the Zabka ethnic supermarket.
The King Edward VII
A former Shepherd Neame pub situated in the angle of the two roads in a suburban area on the south side of the town. It was severely damaged by fire in Februay 2025.
The Avenue
A rare image where all that remains is the pub sign on a vacant lot. A post-war estate pub on the west side of the town, built in 1953 on the bombed out site of the former Avenue Cinema by Birkenhead Brewery, as shown in the historic photo below.
Later passing into the hands of Whitbread, it had a brief spell as the Open Arms in the early 2010s. It finally closed in May 2015 and was demolishedin May 2017 for residential development, which does not yet appear to have taken place.
The Bull
A corner pub with a curved frontage and distinctive arched windows, situated across the road from Woolwich Arsenal station.
The Horseshoe
A four-square redbrick Victorian pub on the main road through the village. Originally tied to Greenalls, it later passed into the hands of Robinson’s, but has now become a Co-op convenience store.
The Lundwood
A monumental inter-wars John Smith’s pub on the north-east side of the town, that was known locally as “The Big Boozer” or “The Club”. It was demolished in 2011 shortly after the StreetView image was taken, and has now been replaced by what looks like sheltered accommodation.
The Eagle & Child
A rather forlorn-looking former Boddingtons pub in an isolated rural local in the middle of the Fylde peninsula, an area where a lot of nearby pubs have also closed.
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